The Hindu Business Line : Kurien sacks IRMA director; HC moved

THE drama surrounding the ongoing power tussle at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) has shifted to Ahmedabad with the rival sides slugging it out in the Gujarat High Court.

After the IRMA Chairman, Dr V. Kurien, sacked the Institute director, Professor K. Prathap Reddy, the latter moved the Gujarat High Court on Friday. The High Court did not grant a stay on Dr Reddy's dismissal and posted the matter for hearing on Wednesday.

Another petition filed by Dr Reddy, seeking High Court intervention in a case filed in the Anand Civil Court by the Kurien camp against his decision to convene a board meeting on April 1, was also taken up by the High Court on Friday.

The High Court observed that the Anand Civil Court was "not the remedy" for the issue when the Joint Charity Commissioner at Vadodara had allowed the board meeting. The matter would come up again for hearing on Monday.

Dr Kurien had sacked Prof Reddy on Thursday and sealed his office. When contacted, sources close to Dr Kurien said that the Chairman had the authority to dismiss the Director. Prof Reddy, however, declined to comment, as the matter was sub-judice.

The April 1 meeting, which saw the IRMA board being split down the middle, had appointed a three-member committee to search for a new Chairman, something Dr Kurien had dismissed as a "conspiracy" against him to "gobble up IRMA." Seven out of the 15 IRMA board members had attended the controversial meeting and Dr Kurien, along with his loyalists, had stayed away.

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